A Cheese for Lafayette
Helen Belkin. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1950. 32 pages. 8 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches. Illustrated paper boards, lacking the dust jacket. A stained and worn but still sound example. Worn at the corners, head/tail spine panel. SIGNED "with very best wishes! Meg" on the half title page. And "Elisabeth" in front of Meg in another type of pen. The copyright is by "Elisabeth Wenning Geopp" and "Margaret Webb Sanders". (see review below - they are joint authors) The only other signed copy we have seen is signed exactly this way and in the same type pens so we presume it is correctly signed with "Elisabeth Meg" a pseudnym for the two authors. Good. Boards. [29837]
"Founded in fact this tells of the gift from the poor people of Nantucket to Lafayette. For with the war's ending and France' offer to buy whale oil, the islanders decided there must be a present for the Marquis and the discussion revolved around the idea it must be from all of them. Milk came from everyone's cow, all had a hand in the making of the cheese, and the 500 pound ""monster"" (for that is what Lafayette called it) was sent on its way. The joint authorship of ""Elisabeth Meg"" presents the tale with all the simplicity of a long-told tale and the two color illustrations by Helen Belkin have an unassuming, period feel. A really nice addition to American history." (Kirkus reviews)
Librarything notes "Margaret Webb Sanders wrote three books with her co-author Elisabeth Wenning Goepp, under the pseudonym "Elisabeth Meg," and one under her own name."
Price: $45.00